[clarkson]

 hi
 decided to go to telesales and play the numbers game to generate leads. can anyone reccomemend a data compnay with clean upto date data and not rubbish.

 they all promise the earth but you just get any old contact they can dredge up.

 cheers

 john

[Scotbrite]

Hi John,
Tried  this last year & can't say it was any good. Cost over £1k & no significant business. Dont know where they got the list from but it was as you say a generic list dredged up from somewhere. Maybe that was partly my fault in not setting tight enough parameters but not something i would waste money on again,
Hope this helps
Cheers
Ron

[clarkson]

Hi
Yes this is what iam afraid of. I have used several before one was great but
Could only generate a few hundred numbers

One was hopeless loads of data mostly out of date.

Was hoping someone on here found one was good.

Cheers for reply

John

[Jim Baggins]

I suppose it depends on your expectations. Companies change so fast and people move often, that data will never be completely up to date. I run a business involved in business marketing and have worked with quite a number of cleaning companies over the years.

Some contract cleaners do large scale data driven marketing to hundreds of thousands of prospects, others are much more targeted and use telemarketing to really home in on the most likely customers locally. I guess it depends on what you are trying to do.

Another option would be to use social networks like Linkedin and facebook. These can be an excellent source of referrals too if you make the right contacts and join the right groups.

[Mike_Boxall]

Hi

What sort of customer data are you after ie what type of business and position etc? You tend to find companies specialising in certain sectors and I've used quite a few before. However, as has been already mentioned LinkedIn is a brilliant place to find contact names if you learn how to use it.

Regards

Mike